Steinbeck uses a metaphor, 'The silence fell on the room’, and to show that the killing of Candy's other half was gratuitous. He also foreshadows that Candy if feeling miasma-like by using the adverb 'again'. In addition Steinbeck also uses, 'It came out of the night and invaded the room.’ to foreshadow that now, after the death of Candy's dog, the once auxiliaries off Candy, have become nothing but a repugnant after taste of his life.
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